Xavier Mertens: Automatic MIME Attachments Triage
[The post Automatic MIME Attachments Triage has been first published on /dev/random]A few weeks ago I posted a diary on the ISC SANS website about a script to automate the extraction and analyze of...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: Algorithms rule our lives, so who should rule them?
Volkswagen's recent emissions scandal highlighted the power that algorithms wield over our everyday lives. As technology advances and more everyday objects are driven almost entirely by software, it's...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: Botconf 2015 Wrap-Up Day #3
[The post Botconf 2015 Wrap-Up Day #3 has been first published on /dev/random]And here is my wrap-up for the third day of the conference. Again a bunch of interesting talks. The first to join the floor...
View ArticleFOSDEM organizers: Keysigning: submit your keys
Our keyserver is now accepting submissions for the FOSDEM 2016 keysigning event. The annual PGP keysigning event at FOSDEM is one of the largest of its kind. With more than one hundred participants...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: Should we decouple Drupal with a client-side framework?
As user experiences evolve from static pages to application-like experiences, end users' expectations of websites have become increasingly demanding. The Facebook newsfeed, the Gmail inbox, and the...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: Email Tracking for Dummies
[The post Email Tracking for Dummies has been first published on /dev/random] Recently, I was involved in an incident handling mission to find how some confidential emails were being tracked. Let’s...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Bringing Autoptimize 2.0 (beta) to a Christmas-tree near you
While over the last couple of months Autoptimize was quietly picking up users to reach 100.000 active installations, work was ongoing on the next version, the magical 2.0 (the PowerUps mentioned here...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: How to set iTerm2 as the default ssh:// handler on Mac OSX
The post How to set iTerm2 as the default ssh:// handler on Mac OSX appeared first on ma.ttias.be.If you click a link on Mac OSX that starts with ssh://, you can have it spawn iTerm2 as the default SSH...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: MySQL: Convert a table from MyISAM to InnoDB or vica versa
The post MySQL: Convert a table from MyISAM to InnoDB or vica versa appeared first on ma.ttias.be.This post just shows you the commands to convert a table from MyISAM to InnoDB or from InnoDB to...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: [SANS ISC Diary] Enforcing USB Storage Policy with PowerShell
[The post [SANS ISC Diary] Enforcing USB Storage Policy with PowerShell has been first published on /dev/random]The following diary was published on isc.sans.org: Enforcing USB Storage Policy with...
View ArticleJeroen De Dauw: Only smart people can learn to code
I’ve just read the interesting blog post Learn To Code, It’s Harder Than You Think.This post outlines two mistakes the author thinks are made in the general thinking on where the difficulties lie in...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Small clarification
’nuff said! ;-)(translation available upon request)Possibly related twitterless twaddle:Kick yourself in the butt for motivation! I Am A Cyclist, And I Am Here To Fuck You Up
View ArticleFabian Arrotin: Kernel 3.10.0-327 issue on AMD Neo processor
As CentOS 7 (1511) was released, I thought it would be a good idea to update several of my home machines (including kids' workstations) with that version, and also newer kernel. Usually that's just a...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Firefox OS dead or just resting?
So Peter-Paul Koch (Quirksmode) declares Firefox OS dead. I’m afraid he’s right. A pity really, as I loved the idea of an entirely open web-based mobile OS. Mozillians don’t agree, saying they’re just...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: PHP Session Locking: How To Prevent Sessions Blocking in PHP...
The post PHP Session Locking: How To Prevent Sessions Blocking in PHP requests appeared first on ma.ttias.be.What I've found when talking about PHP session locking is that half my conversations revolve...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: HTTP/2, CSS/JS concatenation and Autoptimize
The web performance world is abuzz with HTTP/2, which should (among other improvements) do away with the latency that each separate HTTP-request introduces, thus rendering aggregation of e.g. CSS &...
View ArticleLes Jeudis du Libre: Mons, le 17 décembre – Rudder : la certitude d’une...
Ce jeudi 17 décembre 2015 à 19h se déroulera la 44ème séance montoise des Jeudis du Libre de Belgique.Le sujet de cette séance : Rudder : la certitude d’une infrastructure robuste pour vos applicatifs...
View ArticleLes Jeudis du Libre: Mons, le 21 janvier : Pour une bonne pédagogie de la...
Ce jeudi 21 janvier 2016 à 19h se déroulera la 45ème séance montoise des Jeudis du Libre de Belgique.Le sujet de cette séance : Pour une bonne pédagogie de la programmation web avec Python &...
View ArticleJohan Van de Wauw: Schedule for the Geospatial devroom @FOSDEM 2016
I have the honour to present to present to you the schedule for the geospatial devroom at FOSDEM, which will happen on Sunday 31/01/2016.We have a nice lineup with some well known GIS tools, moving...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Making Autoptimize faster
One of the big changes in Autoptimize 2.0 (estimated released between Christmas & New Year) is a significant improvement in the minification speed (30% faster should be no exception). As a quick...
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